EE

-ee

the recipient of a (specified) action, grant, or benefit: appointee, selectee, mortgagee

a person in a (specified) condition: absentee, employee

a person or thing associated in some way with another: bargee, goatee

a person that performs the (specified) action: standee

Origin of -ee

from Anglo-French and Old French -é, origin, originally masculine ending of past participle of verbs in -er from Classical Latin -atus: see -ate

-ee

forming an old-fashioned nonstandard, and now often insulting, form of nouns of nationality ending in -ese: Chinee, Portugee

EE

abbreviation

electrical engineer

electrical engineering

-ee

suffix

a. One that receives or benefits from a specified action: addressee.

b. One that possesses a specified thing: mortgagee.

One that performs a specified action: absentee.

Origin of -ee

Middle English from Old French -e, -eepast participle suff.from Latin -ātus ; see -ate1.

Usage Note: The suffix -ee has its origins in the French passive participle ending -é (feminine -ée ). It was first used in English to refer to indirect objects and then to direct objects of transitive verbs, particularly in legal contexts (as in donee, lessee, or trustee ) and in military and political jargon ( draftee, trainee, or nominee ). Typically the action of the verb happens to the person being described by the noun—a draftee is a person who is drafted, not a person who drafts other people. Beginning around the mid-19th century, primarily in American English, the -ee suffix was extended to denote the subject of an intransitive verb, as in standee (“a person who stands”) and returnee (“a person who returns”). The coining of new words ending in -ee continues to be common. A number of these coinages, such as honoree, deportee, and escapee, have become widely accepted. But many others are created on an ad-hoc basis and tend to have a comic effect. Thus, a firee is one who is fired from a job, a jokee is one who is the subject of a joke, and a roastee is one who is ridiculed at a roast. On rare occasions the suffix -ee has been applied to noun forms, giving us words like benefactee (from benefactor ) and to transitive verbs where the subject refers to the agent of the action, such as attendee (one who attends a conference).

Sentence Examples

During a small electric transfer through the cell, the external work done is Ee, where E is the electromotive force.

" F r ee Principle " party, left p) p y?

From A and B the materials are drawn as they are needed into large buckets D standing on cars, which carry them to the foot of the hoist track EE, up which they are hoisted to the top of the furnace.

They are as follows: (a) while the Servians pronounce the Old Slavonic yach as ye or e or ee, the Croats pronounce it always as ee (Servian beeyelo or belo, Croatian beelo); (b) the Servians have the sound gye (softened d or g), the Croats are without it, but have instead ya or ye (Servian gospogya, Croatian gospoya); (c) the Servians let the vowel i transform the preceding consonant into a soft consonant, whereas the Croats pronounce the consonant unaffected by the softening influence of i (Servian bratya, Croatian bratia); (d) the Servians change the letter l at the end of a word into o whereas the Croats always pronounce it as 1.